Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-10
IN GENERAL.

Gen. Sheridan now tips the scales at 2l5
pounds.
Jennie Wade, the only resident of Get
tysburg killed during the battle, is to be
honored with monument
Miss Annie Maxwell, an American girl,
has made a great hit as LADY Jane" in
Patience at Vienna.
The shipments of American apples to
Great Britain last year amounted to Sill
All barrels, of which BOG, 1893 were shipped
from Boston.
Edward Cooper and Mrs Hewitt, Peter
Cooper's children, have contributed $780,
900 more to the endowment of Cooper I'm
ion at New York.
1t is said of the poor whites of North
Carolina that when they move all they have
to do is to pour dipper of water on the
fire and call the dog.
The adoption of foreign costumes by the
ladies of Japan has led to the establishment
of works for the manufacture of textile
fabrics of foreign style.
A photographer of Winnipeg, Man, hur-
ries up delinquents by displaying their pho
tographs in his window, with the names and
amounts attached.
Base ball is one of the best paying of
professions There are probably at least
% players in the National League who have
bank accounts of from $40, 600 to $50, 900.
A demand for Fennim ore Cooper's novels
is one of the results of Buffalo Bills "Wild
West" show at London.
| A ST. Paul newspaper says that a forlorn
looking dog deliberately committed suicide
there recently. He sat down on a railroad
track and let a train run over him.
Great clouds of asparagus flies have dew
. ,N...lN l.
| Keyport, n ], The fly eats away the tips
of the asparagus. The insects also feed on
the leaves of young peach trees.
\ thrifty husband at Boston had his first
wife's portrait made into a fancy picture
out of respect to his second wifes feelings.
The color of the eyes was changed, golden
locks gave place to raven tresses, and the
head was surmounted by theatrical look
ing hat.
Henry Willard caused thousands of trees
to be planted along the Northern Pacific
road especially between jamestown and
/ Bismarck, Oak. Little attention was given
them after his departure, and many of
them have died but enough have lived to
show that forest culture is practicable in
that latitude.
A farmer of forty acres in Illinois has
never had his land plowed. He tolls not,
neither does he spin, yet he makes more
money than most who produce legitimate
crops, His specially is rattlesnakes, which
| he breeds by the thousand He has con-
| tract for $50 at twenty shillings each from
a Philadelphia medical firm.
A new and very suitable use for the to-
! bacco plant has been discovered. Its stems
and waste, it is claimed, are equal to linen
rags in the manufacture of paper. Tobac-
!
rags $40 to $50. There is no expense in
asserting the former and very little shrink
/ age, as against loss of one-third of rags.
The yearly tobacco waste is estimated by
census reports at from 5000, 600 to 4, 000,
600 pounds.
The proverb that murder will out is Gu
riously illustrated by the conviction of Lee
on Swearengin among the Missouri bald
knobbers. The only evidence against him
was that of the wife of man who was
whipped. She swore that the masked band
left her house about daylight, going toward
Swearengin's and in few minutes she
heard his jackass bray and his dogs bark,
The farmers ON the jury knew that this
outbreak of the farm-yard was welcome
to the master on his return.
The treasury department is now at work
on what is undoubtedly the largest single
/ money NdulJ Ill Lle NOTlu, anu WHICH VIII
hold when full 800, 000, 900 silver dollars.
1t will be in the north court of the depart
ment the massive wall of the building con
cealing that court from outside observa-
ton but even were the court visible from
the street nothing could be seen of the
vault, as it will be only few inches above
the level of the ground and will be covered
with turf, Congress authorized the vault
at the last session, and the contract for the
brck-work has been let at a cost of $l3,-
000 The gigantic Golfer will be SO feet
long by 80 wide, and II feet 8 inches high,
inside dimensions. The iron will cost $l5,
000 The vault will be completed in Sep
TENDER.
The still charming and beautiful consort
of the Prince of Wales is VIGOROUSLY lack
ing in the power of keeping her engage
ments She is constantly 10 minutes late.
So marked is this characteristic that when
circumstances necesstate her presence at
an exact time she is purposely misinformed
as to the hour. A writer in the Brooklyn
Standard says he was once on board the
Osborne, one of the royal yachts. The
prince and princess were using the boat for
their annual summer cruise. A ball had
been given in their honor at Cowes, and the
prince, in full dress was pacing the deck
awaiting the advent of the princess from
her dressing Finally the little lady
made her appearance, but as per usual 10
minutes late. Tut, tut, " remarked IL. II.
H., irritably, 'late again, princess Some
of these days you will be precisely ten
minutes late of heaven %
So nervous and irritable has the car be-
come that the causes of his troubles must
never be mentioned 10 him in any way, In
order to obey his wishes in this respect, the
very newspapers he reads have to be spe-
cially prepared, He now receives no other
papers but those expressly printed for him
the veriest penny magazines of old, con
tanning at best a few inoifensive dispatches,
the rest being made up of society gossip
and theatrical notes, with at best leader
{ or two thrown in, recOunting the blessings
of his autocratic government, without an
over-strict adherence to truth in their
. enumeration, The editor Of this specia
sheet 10 which the car is the only sub
y scriber and which appears in "A single mum
q Der, saw no harm in inserting the report.
of the festivities on the occasion of Empe
n ror Williams Goth anniversary, which
caused the car TO exclaim sadly 81 shall
l.. never live to reach fourscore years and ten
e and have the benediction of millions of IN,
subjects showered upon my head